Submarine Cable Map

There’s a really nice map of underseas cables at, oddly enough, submarinecablemap.com. It’s interesting to see where they don’t run just as much as where they do.

Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Roman Roads

Itiner-e is a really nice open dataset and atlas of Roman roads. It’s interesting to look at where the paths of the Roman roads have survived long enough to become the foundations of today’s major routes.

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‘Three norths’ set to leave England and not return for hundreds of years…

The British Geological Survey has an interesting article on the moving alignment of true, magnetic, and grid north and how it’s about to leave England for the next several hundred years.

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Maps – Mid March 2025 Update

It’s time for another little update and this time it’s 238 Ordnance Survey maps of various towns and cities across North Yorkshire.

Interesting map sets include:

Harrogate, 1889-90 (25 Maps)

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Maps – Early Spring 2025 Update

It’s time for another little update and this time it’s 182 maps of Cardiganshire taken from the Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952 series.

Interesting places covered this update include:

Aberayron

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Maps – The Early April 2024 Update

It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these but… here are 511 additional map images of Northumberland (using the old Meridian) from the Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 series.

Interesting places covered this update include:

Holy Island

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Maps – The Mid March 2023 Update

I’ve added 572 additional map images of Brecknockshire from the Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 series to the mapping project.

Interesting places covered this update include:

Builth

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Maps – Mid December 2022 Update

469 additional map images of Bedfordshire from the Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 series.

Interesting places covered this update include:

Reading

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Maps – Late November 2022 Update

454 additional map images of Bedfordshire from the Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 series.

Interesting places covered this update include:

Luton

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Maps – Early November 2022 Update

282 additional map images of Anglesey from the Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 series.

Interesting places covered this update include:

Bangor

And Holyhead